The IndependentLetters: Oil and arms: the US-British-Saudi connectionThe IndependentSince the 1940s, the role of Saudi Arabia in the world economy had been intimately linked to oil exports, and from the 1970s onwards, this trade became the basis of the pet …

The IndependentOur addiction to oil means that climate change and conflict in the Middle East ...The IndependentIt would be wrong to argue, as many did in the case of the Iraq War, that the motivation for bombing in Syria is to secure our access to oil. Bu …